Parents

[Intro]
Em C G Am


[Verse]
Am 
  
                 C                 G
  I was born in a messed up century

My favourite flavoured sweets
    Am                     Em
are raspberry amphetamines
                
  I bought a car,
          C
Beretta, age sixteen
           G
I brush my teeth with bleach
         Am  
’cause I ain’t

got time for cavities


[Verse]
Em                C
   My daddy put a gun to my head
     G
Said if you kiss a boy,
          Am
I'm gonna shoot you dead
     Em
So I tied him up with gaffa tape
      C
and I locked him in a shed
       G
Then I went out to the garden
      Am~  
and I fucked my best

friend, 'cause my


[Chorus]
C      G                 Em
  High hopes are getting low
              D             C
Because these people are so old
             G              Em
The way they think about it all
     D                         C
If I tried, I would never know
        G                 Em
My high hopes are getting low
      D                        C
But I know I'll never be alone
       G               Em
It's alright, we'll survive
      \                    Em
Cause parents ain't always right


[Interlude]
    C      G
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    Am      Em
I-I-I-I-I-I-I,
    C      G
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    Am         \
I-I-I-I-I-I-I


[Verse]

Put a toaster in my bath,

watch my mum and dad laugh
      G  
See a thousand volts

go through the son
     Am
they wish they never had
             Em
They told me casual affection
         C
leads to sexual infection
         G
But it's hard to get an erection
            Am
when you're so used to rejection


[Verse]
          Em  
Yeah, the teacher

fucked the preacher
    C
but then he had to leave her
       G                  
  Had to wash away the sins
      Am
of a male cheerleader
Em                   
  Hi, nice to meet ya,
     C
got nothing to believe in
   G                   
  So let me know when my
            \
breathing stops, cause my


[Chorus]
C      G                 Em
  High hopes are getting low
              D             C
Because these people are so old
             G              Em
The way they think about it all
     D                         C
If I tried, I would never know
        G                 Em
My high hopes are getting low
      D                        C
But I know I'll never be alone
      G               Em
It's alright, we'll survive
      \                    Em
Cause parents ain't always right


[Interlude]
    C      G
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    Am      Em
I-I-I-I-I-I-I,
    C      G
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    Am
I-I-I-I-I-I-I


[Bridge]
Em
Tick tock, stop the clock
  Am
Because I got the feeling
         B
that I'm gonna get shot
Em  
Tick tock, stop the clock

                                       
  Am
Because I got the feeling
         B
that I'm gonna get shot


[Chorus]
      C     G                 Em
All my high hopes are getting low
              D             C
Because these people are so old
             G              Em
The way they think about it all
     D                         C
If I tried, I would never know
         G                 Em
My high hopes are getting low
      D                         C
But I know I'll never be alone
       G               Em
It's alright, we'll survive
      \                    Em
Cause parents ain't always right


[Outro]
    C      G
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    Am      Em
I-I-I-I-I-I-I,
    C      G
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    Am      Em
I-I-I-I-I-I-I